Vegetable-slicer



Patented June 28 J. D. PREESE.

VEGETABLE SLIGER.

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small U-shaped clamps, d.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

. JOHN D. FREESE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

VEGETABLE-SLIC ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,467, dated June 28, 1887.

Application filed February ll, 1887. Serial No. 227.334.

To all whom ifimrty concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN D. FREEsE, a citizen ofthe United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of MH- nois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vegetable Slicers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

' This invention has for its object to provide a rotary vegetableslicer that is simplein its construction and effective in its operation.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a sectional elevation of the machine;

Fig. 2, a transverse vertical section through the" center line of the same; Fig. 3, atransverse vertical section through the cutter-disk on line 3 3 in Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a section of the edge of the disk,showing one of the clamps for holding the steel disk'to its cast skeleton; and Figs. 5 and 6, a sectional plan and transverse section of the feed-hopper. V

Corresponding letters in the several figures of the drawings designate like parts.

A denotes the shaft, pivoted in the side walls of frame B, with a crank, 0, upon its protrud-' ing end.

The wheel -shaped skeleton I) is either cast in one piece with shaft A or is rigidly mounted thereupon close to the leftjournal thereof. and rim connected by four (more or less) arms, and against the left face of the same is rcmovably secured a disk, E, made of sheetsteel, of equal diameter with such skeleton D, and preferably secured thereto by a series of cut or punched through its face, at equal distance apart, a series of radially diagonal slits, e, the edges 6 of which are bent or swaged out in opposite directions on the oppo site or reverse sides of the disk, forming slots laterally angular to the face of the disk, and

This skeleton D consists of a hub The disk E has.

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' the edges thus projecting from the opposite faces of the disk are sharpened all at once on a flat-surface grinding stone, so as to form knife edges.

The cutting-edges on both sides of the disk may be sharpened, and then when one side he comes dull the disk may be reversed, both sides being equally capable ofcutting, and the edges on the reverse side will not become dull while those on the opposite side are doing the cutting. The slices of vegetable as cut will pass through the angular slots below the knifeedges. 1

Against the side of frame B, adjacent to out: ter-disk E,is secured the angular feed hopper F, grooved to be more particularly adapted for slicing string-beans, which hopper, with its bottom end, is to be in close proximity with the knife-edges e. but otherwise may be varied in shape for different kinds of vegetables.

The cutter disk is inclosed on top by a semieylindrieal cover, G, fitting upon frame B.

As will be noticed, thedisk E being s'ufficutter-edges, it will cut a dozen slices with each revolution, it thus working rapidly without applying gear-wheels for increasing the speed of such cutter-disk, whereby the whole machine can be made of the most simple con struction.

What I claim is V In a vegetable-slicer of the. classdescribed, the herein-described disk E, having slits e and cutting edges 0 turned outward on opposite sides of said slits, said disk being rotatably mounted, as set forth.

In testimony whereoflaffix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN D. FREESE.

\Vitnesses:

WM. H. LOTZ, OTTO LUBKERT.

ciently large to provide twelve (more'or less) 

